On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:30:10PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > I'm looking at Andreas's code for switcharoo support, and something I > > want to do along with it is make apple-gmux not dependent on backlight > > support (i.e. you can still build switcharoo support if > > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is disabled). I'm assuming this patch as a > > prerequisite. But things do get really monstrously ugly, so if there's a > > cleaner way to enforce this that I haven't found I'd love to hear about > > it. > > Why do you want to support that case? One of the problems we have with > the kernel at present is that it's trivial to come up with non-sensical > configurations. I can't think of a single case where you'd want the gmux > support without also having the backlight support code.
Just because there isn't strictly any reason that the switching code needs to depend on backlight support. But yes, I can't think of a good reason why anyone would want this configuration. I won't mess with it then. Seth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
